Title: Candy Kisses [Prologue
Author: Endless-Kaoru
Rating: M
Disclaimer: If I owned Death Note, there would be a lot more Matt, Mello, and Takeda, a lot less Soichirou, and Misa wouldn't exist.

Warnings: None.
Summary:

Candy Kisses

Prologue

'This… This is not good…'

Mello glanced about in irritation. His comrades either didn't notice, or didn't care.

'I was careless. And now… Now I'm on my own.' He swallowed, mentally going over his personal inventory, 'Augh! I don't have anything useful!'

He stole a glance at the door, then back to what lay before him, 'No escaping now… I'll just have to tough it out.' He bit his lip, 'I can't say anything…'

The door creaked open, and Mello didn't bother to look. The sound of boots thudding across the floor revealed enough. Plastic and fabric rustled, he heard a zipper, and a boot hit the floor. Another zipper, another boot hit the floor, and the newcomer sighed.

He finally turned toward the lanky figure, eyeing the plastic bag, "You stopped at that CD store again. I thought they charged too much."

"I did, and they do."

"I see."

It was only idle talk. There was no way this would continue much longer.

"…bastards are the only ones with the newest CDs, though… cause no one else will buy from them."

"Mm…" Mello's non-committal sound drew the other's attention.

"But… they had a good deal on some stuff today." The bag rustled, "Two for a buck… I got a few. Thought I might pick some up."

Mello's mouth watered as four Monster-sized Butterfinger bars came into view, but he held his tongue.

"…and I so love Butterfingers…"

The goddamned tease tore open the packaging of one, chuckling lowly. Sky blue eyes met dark eyes, and the Holder-of-the-Chocolate asked slowly, "Do you want this, Mello? You look rather hungry…"

"I… I do…" he agreed, licking his lips.

Matt hit pause on his GameBoy, set it down, and turned to stare at them both, "This is so pathetic. Ari, just give him the stupid chocolate already."

Ari chuckled, waving an open chocolate in Mello's face, "Well, well! If it's so important that Mattie has to put down his dearest GameBoy and say so, then I guess I have no choice!" The four bars were dropped in Mello's lap.

"And stop calling me Mattie!" the gamer snapped.

"Right, right." Ari moved past, swiping the GameBoy and muttering, "…Mattie-boy."

Matt didn't realize his game system was gone until Ari had cleared out of the room.